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In a major policy speech on Thursday, Obama said the United States faced a new threat from "diverse" terror franchises.

The off-duty British soldier hacked to death in broad daylight in London yesterday has been identified as a young father regarded by comrades as "popular and witty".

The soldier victim of this week's London street murder has been named as Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, a loving father of two-year-old son Jack.

Severe thunderstorms have barreled through Oklahoma City, upsetting relief and clean-up efforts three days after a powerful tornado killed 24 people.

An Islamist group has claimed responsibility for bombings in Niger, for the west African nation's involvement in a French-led military offensive in Mali.

A Chechen linked to the Boston bombers and killed by the FBI during questioning wasn't violent, his father says.

The Syrian opposition has opened key talks in Istanbul as the Friends of Syria group issued a grim warning to President Bashar al-Assad.

Japan's Yuichiro Miura, 80, has become the oldest person to scale Mount Everest, recapturing the record he first set in 2003.

UK's security chiefs are meeting over the brutal slaying of a soldier by two men who said they had killed him over the deaths of Muslims in Afghanistan.

Dozens of US police officers have formed a guard of honour for a little girl graduating from kindergarten who lost her policeman father over the weekend.